Was the forecast right for Dallas on Wed Oct 21?
Dallas, Texas · daily high temperature in °F · forecasts from each model's archived runs, verified against the DAL observations
14 days out, 4 models put Dallas's Wed Oct 21 high anywhere from 68° to 83°;by the final call, the day before, the field had settled to a median of 80°. The day verified at 82° against the DAL observations — clear.
GFS landed closest, off by 0.9°. UKMO ran 4° cool.
What every model said, at every lead
Daily-high calls for Wed Oct 21 as each model's runs approached it — the last archived run per day. NBM and The Spread's own blend are consensus products and stay out of these ranges and rankings; the Dallas scoreboard shows them, labelled.
| Lead | AIFS | AIGFS | ECMWF | GEM | GFS | ICON | UKMO | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15d · 2026-10-06 | — | 80° | — | — | 82° | — | — | 80–82° |
| 14d · 2026-10-07 | 72° | 75° | 83° | — | 68° | — | — | 68–83° |
| 13d · 2026-10-08 | 73° | 84° | 71° | — | 65° | — | — | 65–84° |
| 12d · 2026-10-09 | 79° | 77° | 82° | — | 85° | — | — | 77–85° |
| 11d · 2026-10-10 | 81° | 75° | 74° | — | 73° | — | — | 73–81° |
| 10d · 2026-10-11 | 81° | 72° | 81° | — | 77° | — | — | 72–81° |
| 9d · 2026-10-12 | — | 82° | 83° | 73° | 87° | — | — | 73–87° |
| 8d · 2026-10-13 | 77° | 77° | 86° | 84° | 86° | — | — | 77–86° |
| 7d · 2026-10-14 | 81° | 82° | 82° | 81° | 84° | — | — | 81–84° |
| 6d · 2026-10-15 | 80° | 82° | 82° | 78° | 81° | 82° | 77° | 77–82° |
| 5d · 2026-10-16 | 81° | 79° | 81° | 76° | 81° | 80° | 80° | 76–81° |
| 4d · 2026-10-17 | 80° | 78° | 79° | 77° | 81° | 80° | 77° | 77–81° |
| 3d · 2026-10-18 | 80° | 78° | 80° | 78° | 82° | 80° | 77° | 77–82° |
| 2d · 2026-10-19 | 80° | 78° | 80° | 79° | 81° | 81° | 77° | 77–81° |
| 1d · 2026-10-20 | 79° | 78° | 80° | 80° | 81° | 81° | 78° | 78–81° |
| actual | 82° |
Read it honestly
This is one date, not a league table. A model can win a day it deserved to lose; rankings only mean something over a window. For that, see which model has been most accurate in Dallas — or every city The Spread scores.
Forecasts are what each model's archived runs said at the time, captured at The Spread's sweep times — never reconstructed after the fact. Truth is the DAL observations. The actual values are the ones in hand when this receipt was settled, usually 2 days after the date; a correction published after that is not carried into it. Archive depth varies by city; receipts exist only for dates the archive watched arrive.